Crowds don’t lead to victory - Muntu

ARUA.

The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party president Maj Gen Mugisha Muntu has said pulling crowds at rallies does not necessarily lead a candidate to victory.

Maj Gen Muntu said Opposition candidates have always had huge crowds since the 2006 general elections but this has not translated into victory.

He was on Saturday speaking to FDC delegates in West Nile during his campaign to be elected the party flag bearer.
“I have not seen the crowds that welcomed us in 2006 elections in towns like Arua, Hoima, Kasese, Rukungiri, Mbale and many others. Those crowds could have moved us to victory but what happened, it is because we were not organised, and we had no plans to move forward with them. Crowds alone cannot lead us to victory,” Maj Gen Muntu said.

He added that building proper party structures and having work plans was a better strategy than civic action. He said the poor health systems and bad roads are affecting the economic and social lives of the populace.

He scoffed at those who are crying to President Museveni to level the ground for fair play saying: “When you are a trained soldier going to war and you are ambushed by an enemy who has placed his machine guns on a high ground and he is massacring you, can you rise up and say there is unfairness?”
He said to counter that requires good planning and organisation.

Mr Habib Jogoo Asega of Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) agreed with Gen Muntu saying: “For us we know that big crowds at rallies don’t determine the outcome of an election but when you have a better party structure which is functional, you can cause change.”